* Claes Bäckström
I am a firm believer in that rpm packages should depend on the functions they need. No rpm package should take for granted that something is installed in the "base" pattern. I also hate it when single rpm packages depends on patterns (not sure if this exist in openSUSE) they should depend on rpm packages.
Fully agreed. We do not want to undermine package dependencies with patterns. Pattern should help to define 'building blocks' to ease software management.
And also thinks that a pattern should not depend on rpm packages that other rpm packages included in the pattern also depends on, as there is no need for that. This is not a problem technical speaking it's just harder to maintain and confusing to people.
Agreed. To get this right in every case probably needs tools support to - detect transitive dependencies - detect sub-patterns (if a subset of packages listed in a pattern effectively matches an already existing pattern) Klaus --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org